[3] He received national attention in 1973 when he was the onsite reporter for Time in Santiago during the coup that overthrew the Marxist government of Salvador Allende, and securing the first ever post-coup interview with new dictator Augusto Pinochet.
[4] After graduating in history at Yale, Eisendrath became a journalist, and reported for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Baltimore Evening Sun.
Eisendrath then joined Time as a correspondent in Washington, London and Paris, eventually becoming bureau chief in Buenos Aires where he was responsible for all news operations in Hispanic South America.
[5] His work has appeared on NPR and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune and The Atlantic.
[6] From 1975 to 2016 he was a professor at the University of Michigan where he founded Wallace House, which includes the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships, one of the nation's leading mid-career professional journalism programs, and The Livingston Awards, widely known as "the Pulitzer Prize for the Young", raising $60 million endowment to permanently sustain the fellowships, and was founding director of the prizes.